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If you had actually seen that, you probably would’ve claimed I was being picky too—but honestly, people do some pretty crazy stuff. As for the choice between the 939 and the AM2, I'm leaning toward the AM2. In a year or two, my girlfriend won't have to scrap her entire rig; she'll just be able to swap out half the components, which makes way more sense financially. If you don't want to look at it that way, hey, that's your call.
I can see how much you’re struggling when people start pointing out the past—honestly, I already told you to try building a Socket A rig for someone if you think that's going to stay stable indefinitely. Just take a look at this before you go crazy with the overclocking:
http://www.markusleonhardt.de/oelbilder.html
Look, you clearly didn't get what I was saying. I know exactly how overclocking works—I know how to push clock speeds and how to ramp up voltage. You don't need to give me a lecture on the basics. You're sitting there talking about "minimal" voltage increases, while I'm telling this guy not to just toss an extra volt in there blindly without thinking. Because, honestly, what does one volt even mean in the grand scheme? You get where I'm coming from, right? Just look at the extremes people go to for cooling—from some guy literally submerging components in mineral oil to the absolute madmen using liquid nitrogen to cool chips that are pushed way past their limits.
Look, you aren't even going to be able to bump up the voltage if you don't have some serious cooling under the hood. And even if you do try to push it, you’ve got to go slow—tiny increments only. Every single processor has its own specific limit for what kind of voltage it can actually handle. Those are just the bare minimums, so if you decide to feed it, say, 1V, it might not look like much on paper, but it could still fry your chip. Honestly, every processor is going to kick the bucket if you don't keep it chilled—you'd basically be leaving it to die from a fever or something equally ridiculous.